Teenager strangled her own mother after ‘losing it’ during noise row

Kadie Johnson left her terrified mother curled up in a ball to protect herself as she ‘lashed out’ at her

A volatile young woman “lost it” and dragged her petrified mother to the ground before throttling her following a fierce altercation that turned physical.

Kadie Johnson “lashed out” after flying into a rage, leaving her mother cowering in a ball on the floor before eventually retreating to lock herself in the bathroom.

The mother managed to alert the police, and an eight-minute telephone call she placed during the ordeal was described as “harrowing” to listen to, Hull Crown Court was told. Johnson, 19, of Walliker Street, off Anlaby Road, west Hull, pleaded guilty to intentional strangulation, assault and causing criminal damage on September 26.

Prosecutor Bede Porter outlined how Johnson was woken up by the sound of her mother preparing to leave their Hull home. Johnson yelled from her bedroom: “Do you mind keeping the f***ing noise down?”

Her mother fired back: “It was all right for you to be banging around at 20 past 12 this morning.” Johnson came downstairs and said: “You’re not going anywhere.”

She blocked her mother’s path and continued to yell and swear directly in her face. Her mother, aged 41 at the time, warned Johnson to step aside or she would call the police, reports Hull Live.

“She did call the police,” Mr Porter told the court. The eight-minute recording was played to those present.

The mother could be heard reporting that Johnson was throwing glass, candles and ornaments, while repeatedly seizing her mother by the hair and yanking her backwards and forwards. At one stage, the mother fled upstairs and retreated into a bedroom, where she curled herself into a ball.

“The defendant grabbed her by her head again and pulled her on the floor,” Mr Porter told the court.

While she lay on the floor, Johnson seized her by the neck, placed her hand around the back of her head and squeezed, limiting her mother’s capacity to breathe.

“She didn’t at any point lose consciousness,” Mr Porter explained. “She was able to get herself into the bathroom, where she was able to lock the door.

“That’s where she was when the police arrived. She was able to leave the bathroom.” Johnson proceeded to destroy items belonging to her mother, including a TV and a mobile phone.

Following her arrest and transfer to the police station, Johnson denied strangling her mother but acknowledged attempting to prevent her from leaving. She had no prior convictions.

Hannah Turner, mitigating, described the recording of the 999 call as “harrowing” to hear, with the mother clearly distraught when Johnson “lashed out” at her. “There is perhaps little that can be said in terms of the offence itself,” Miss Turner stated.

Addressing the court, Johnson said: “It was a blur that day. I do feel bad for what I did to her.” She acknowledged that she “lost it”.

Johnson received 26 sessions of a probation service Building Choices programme and 20 days’ rehabilitation.

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